KIELER Rich Client Application 0.9.0

We are happy to provide the ninth release of the Kiel Integrated Environment for Layout Eclipse Rich Client! It is a framework for enhanced user interaction in graphical modeling basing on the Eclipse platform. This being a pre-release it provides some basic core contributions as listed below. The full user experience will follow in upcoming releases. For known shortcomings and problems also see below.

Installation

You can either download the Rich Client Application (RCA) which is a self-contained application bundled with everything you need to run KIELER, or you can install the single KIELER features via an update site on top of your own Eclipse installation (Eclipse 4.3 "Kepler" required).

Known Problems and Limitations

If KIELER fails to start with an error message such as "Failed to load the JNI shared library...", you might have downloaded KIELER 64bit even though you're running Java 32bit, or vice versa. This is a known Eclipse problem and can be fixed by downloading the proper version of KIELER. Note that if you have installed multiple versions of the JVM on your machine, you have to make sure that Eclipse (resp. KIELER RCA) finds the right one. You can achieve this either by adding the Java bin directory to your PATH variable or by specifying the path to your JVM executable in your eclipse.ini file, using the -vm option, as explained on this page.

Project Status with Release 0.9.0

Extension

Progress

Released

SCCharts Editor (*.sct)

Implemented and tested

0.9.0

SCG Editor

Implemented and tested

0.9.0

SCL Editor

Implementation not yet finished

planned for 0.10.0

Extended 2 Core SCCharts

Implemented, not yet fully tested

0.9.0

Core 2 Normalized SCCharts

Implemented, not yet fully tested (some known bugs)

0.9.0

Normalized SCCharts 2 SCG

Implemented, not yet fully tested (some known bugs)

0.9.0

SCG 2 Sequential SCG

Implemented and partly tested,

straightforward scheduler for 0.9.0 release,

enhanced scheduler planned for 0.10.0 release.

0.9.0

SCG 2 C

Implemented by transformation via common S language

(this can also be translated into Java -> SJL)

0.9.0

Simulation

A full featured simulation is currently being developed

planned for 0.10.0

Bug Reports, Comments

We're working hard to make the graphical modeling user experience as convenient as possible. However, bugs can still remain in the code and some things might not be as you would expect them. Please don't hesitate to send in bug reports or give other comments like feature requests.